At a street market a farmer sold small apples for 30 cents each small pears for 40 cents each and small orange for 15 cents each at the end of the day the farmer had made the same amount of money from each type of fruit what is the least amount of money the farmer could have made selling pears
I think you do 30 and 40 and the least common factor for 30 and 40 is 120 I think
Yes. He made $1.20
To find the least amount of money the farmer could have made selling pears, we need to determine the least common multiple (LCM) of the prices of small apples and small oranges.
The price of small apples is 30 cents each, and the price of small oranges is 15 cents each. To find the LCM, we need to find the smallest number that is divisible by both 30 and 15.
To find the LCM, we can use prime factorization:
30 = 2 * 3 * 5
15 = 3 * 5
Then, we multiply each prime factor the greatest number of times it occurs in either factorization:
LCM = 2 * 3 * 5 = 30
Therefore, the least common multiple, and hence the least amount of money the farmer could have made selling pears, is 30 cents.